Nostalgic for the 80s? Netflix has a show for you! Winona Ryder stars in Stranger Things, a new series directed by Shawn Levy that pays homage to the supernatural films of the decade.

The premise surrounds the disappearance of a young boy and the search for him spearheaded by his mother Joyce Byers, played by Ryder. The show is set in a small Indiana town where government experiments and supernatural forces are uncovered. The score, the eerie visuals, and special effects seen in the trailer promise a creepy show.

“Ninety-nine out of 100 times a kid goes missing, the kid is with a parent or relative” a police officer tells Ryder in the trailer. “Well, what about the other time? You said 99 out of 100. What about the other time? The one?” she asks.

“It’s all about trying something new,” Ryder told People magazine. “This is a genre that I enjoy watching, but haven’t necessarily explored before, which drew me to the project… I think the audience will love the nostalgic voyage back in time before technology had completely took over. Kids were asked to put their toys away at dinner – not their phones. Yet, there were astronauts were going to space and government conspiracies loomed. It was just such a different world back then.”

All eight episodes premiere on July 15 on Netflix. We won’t be watching alone.

You’ll find Leia running through the six with her feminist woes. The co-editor of TheFeminismProject.com has been in Toronto since 2012, after re-locating from the west coast of Canada. Leia’s passion for words translated into a career after she completed a political science degree from the University of Victoria and scored a gig writing for a local magazine. Inspired by her new calling she decided to do the Master of Arts in Journalism program at Western University and was on her way to becoming an underpaid journalist.
She has contributed to publications and TV programs across Canada including The London Free Press, CTV British Columba, TheLoop.ca, TheHollywoodMag.com, and currently she works at The Shopping Channel where you can see her hawking vacuums.
When she’s not on the screen (or in front of it), she’s spoiling her fur babies and is one-half of an interracial couple whose goal is to try every single charcuterie board in the city.
Now she’s all about her new baby, TheFeminismProject.com!